Yes, my "all" should have been "all with a Y in oratab". Cheers, Wayne On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Iotzov, Iordan <IIotzov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote, in part: > I believe there is a flag (Y/N) for a every oratab database entry that > indicates whether or not the respective DB would be affected by "dbstart" > and "dbshut". > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l